Self censoring?
Firstly I've come up with a new way to share my oddness with you. I think I'll post a link from my bookmark file with each post. Most of these have been around my bookmarks for quite a while, all of them I've found interesting at some point or other. I've got a lot of bookmarks all filed by category such as Celtic, Food/Drink, Geneology, Odd/Weird/Perverse, etc. This one was loose in the Entertainment folder.
http://gorm.com/index.htm
We now return you to your regularly scheduled post, already in progress.
...so I started thinking, why am I doing this? Who is it for? Ultimately for me. is the only answer. It's cathartic, it promotes self reflection and thought. But if nobody ever reads it why bother. I don't know. Why not? There is the odd chance that sombody will hit it from Blogspots random generator. I'm not sure that I want to tell my friends about this site, I have, and do, and probably will continue to talk about them, saying things that I probably will never have the guts to say to them in person. Not necessarily bad things, just things that would embarass me or them, whereas here, they can just ignore them and pretend they never saw them, or talk to me about it. Some things I wouldn't mind them knowing, but, like I said, I'd never have the balls to tell them. Then I remembered a nagging bit of trivia. I don't even remember where I got it. Probably some movie or other. But there was a man (villain?) who always left a loophole in all his plans. The victim/subject/hero could always save himself as long as he was clever enough to find it. I realize that I inadvertantly left such a hole. I left a comment on one of their blogs. From there, they can click my name and see my blog.
See, I don't have to censor myself, I can still get the value of writing it, and I'll also never know if it's being read. Unless it's so incendiary that one of them points out to me, or posts a comment, that they've seen it.
I think everybody wins.
http://gorm.com/index.htm
We now return you to your regularly scheduled post, already in progress.
...so I started thinking, why am I doing this? Who is it for? Ultimately for me. is the only answer. It's cathartic, it promotes self reflection and thought. But if nobody ever reads it why bother. I don't know. Why not? There is the odd chance that sombody will hit it from Blogspots random generator. I'm not sure that I want to tell my friends about this site, I have, and do, and probably will continue to talk about them, saying things that I probably will never have the guts to say to them in person. Not necessarily bad things, just things that would embarass me or them, whereas here, they can just ignore them and pretend they never saw them, or talk to me about it. Some things I wouldn't mind them knowing, but, like I said, I'd never have the balls to tell them. Then I remembered a nagging bit of trivia. I don't even remember where I got it. Probably some movie or other. But there was a man (villain?) who always left a loophole in all his plans. The victim/subject/hero could always save himself as long as he was clever enough to find it. I realize that I inadvertantly left such a hole. I left a comment on one of their blogs. From there, they can click my name and see my blog.
See, I don't have to censor myself, I can still get the value of writing it, and I'll also never know if it's being read. Unless it's so incendiary that one of them points out to me, or posts a comment, that they've seen it.
I think everybody wins.
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